Page 128 of Keep Your Friends Close and Your… Work Enemy Closer?

For a long moment, I lost all sense of where we were, the only tangible thing this connection between us. That was all I knew.

We both caught our breath, still maintaining that eye contact, her pussy occasionally fluttering around me, aftershocks I supposed.

She looked at me closely, a line forming between her brows, like she had something to say. "Did you mean it?" she asked.

"Mean what?"

There was a long pause as I wondered what on earth was on her mind, and then she finally spit it out. "Do you really love me?"

Thirty-Five

Annalise

I held my breath, waiting for his response.

"Are you joking? Absolutely I do. I would think it's pretty obvious."

"But why?" I couldn't let it go. "I'm totally unlovable."

"What?" he scoffed. "Who the fuck told you that?"

"Myself. I'm a bitch, and I know it."

He stroked my cheek with his thumb. "You're not a bitch. I won't let you speak about yourself like that."

God, he was so perfect it was unbelievable. Hopefully, my doubts hadn't ruined the moment, the earth-shattering sex we'd just had.

His hand still cradling my cheek, I turned my head and kissed his palm. "You're incredible, you know that?" I asked. "Thatwas incredible."

He shot me a cocky grin, one that personified both Jared and Max, the two people I'd known and crushed on beginning to meld together, something I'd had a difficult time with in my head.

"Yeah, it was," he agreed. "The best experience of my life."

My heart melted at the sincerity in his voice. I swallowed back my emotions, not wanting to burst into tears. But the release I felt, also the relief, well, it was like I'd left the mess of my pastbehind, and now, I was starting fresh. All because of this man still inside me.

Hewas the reason I'd been able to move forward, and I could hardly wait to begin this new journey. Together.

Slowly, he pulled out, and I suddenly worried about the mess we'd leave on the dress my sister had made for me. I giggled, and Max raised a brow.

"My sister is going to kill me for ruining her dress."

His eyes widened. "This isherdress? Oh, shit."

I cracked up laughing, Max's eyes practically devouring my bare pussy with his cum dribbling out of me.

"Sorry, not sorry," he said, his voice deep and husky. "It's fucking worth it."

Forgetting about the dress, I spread my legs a bit more, reveling in the look on his face. "You like seeing that?"

He groaned. "Hell yes. It's so fucking hot. I'm getting hard again."

"Already? Can we go to my place for the next round? This table is kind of killing my back."

He tore his eyes away from between my legs and glanced around, leaving my side and returning a split second later. "There's nothing to clean up with, so you'll just have to wear your panties. I hope they don't get ruined."

I shrugged. "I don't mind anymore. You can always buy me more, Mr. CEO."

"I will. But you can also buy them yourself, boss babe."

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